Behind The Scenes: Elle Varner – “I Don’t Care’ Music Video

Singer Elle Varner has recently called it a wrap on filming her music video for her latest single ‘I Don’t Care’ off of her debut album ‘Perfectly Imperfect,’ and we’ve got the behind-the-scenes footage of Elle and crew on set in Brooklyn. The single dropped in mid-July, just before her album hit shelves back in August, and this is the first visual from the record.

Directed by Lenny Bass who has worked with other soulful favorites like Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott, and Cee Lo Green, the sensual video portrays young couples who are extremely in love while battling different forms of discrimination. Elle’s rocking all sorts of hot looks and bright colors as she gets extra close to her co-star. (Can you believe that top she’s wearing in the picture below is hand-painted?!) Werk Elle!

Peep the behind-the-scenes footage and more photos from the set below:

Despite her label not supporting her fully, she is slaying artistically, vocally, & musically. The music industry is like what Lupe said, they’ll give you creative control, but they’ll do stuff like not promote you, give you no budget, & etc. Lupe, Elle Varner, & Miguel are perfect examples. You see they all have creative control, but their label isn’t really putting them out there. Lupe’s latest record is basically independent. Miguel recorded & produced his latest Album & EP’s, & said he paid the director for his latest videos, Idk about Elle Varner, but she did write & produce most of her album, & thou her label may be paying for her videos, they are not pushing her like they should. She could be known like on Frank Ocean’s level at least, but they let her get sleep on in the mass media. Her album slays thou.

I lovvveeee this song . And i love the entire album, *** im actually mad there arent more songs on it. She is my favorite female real r&b artist right now . My dream concert is her and miguel …. LAWDDDD

It kills me that this post only has about 15 comments (including mine). And I know for a fact it’s been up at least 2 hours. Elle is one of the most talented songstresses (sp.??) in the game right now. She is definitely NEXT. She is the epitome of beauty, class, intelligence and of course talent. She carries herself amazingly. She is what girls need to be looking up to, not one of the many whores we have today on the scene. And my previous point is proven: While all the Kimye, LHH Atlanta, and Nicki Minaj posted get 100+ comments easily, Elle here has less than 20 and this post has been up here a long time. And dont even let me talk about an Obama post. It’s doing good if it gets 25 comments too. A sign of our generation and what they deem “interesting”. Elle to me is very interesting and I know she will have longetivity. For those of you who didnt cop her mixtape “Conversational Lush”, yall are sleepin’ BIG TIME. -One

This is why artist end up selling out (like Nicki Mianj for example).
Image these number of comments are number of record sells! I am not supporting selling out, I am just making the point that more times than not mainstream will kick ass sadly. Majority of ppl these days want bumble gum pop unoriginal **** music. That kinda music makes money and GENERATES COMMENTS. Oh and not to mention Elle doesn’t dress suggestive or “******” so yah that doesn’t help either. It shouldn’t matter but it does. Like Melanie Fiona, its amazing that shes still not a household name! but Melanie is about her music and not shaking her ass or making **** music. Go figure, backwards ass world.

I agree! I hate to see that all of her posts only get about 40 comments this girl is too talented to go unrecognized…I love every single song on her album…people need to support real artists and real talent.

Yes please download her mixtape Conversational Lush if you like the album. It’s rare that I listen to an album and thoroughly enjoy EVERY song on the album but I did with Conversational Lush it was that good. She is honestly like a breath of fresh air and I have been a fan from the moment I saw her video for Only Wanna Give it to You on NecoleBitchie, as a matter of fact if it wasn’t for NB I wouldn’t have found out about her until much later. Normally Necole is the only place I hear updates about Elle V. NB may cover more mainstream popular topics like BBall Wives and L&HH and Kim and Kanye but I appreciate that its not all she talks about. Anyway Go Elle! Can’t wait for this new video, and Go Necole, you’re both positive role models to women who may feel like their dreams are out of reach!

She’s so fine and beautiful. Her album wasn’t as good as I thought it would be.though. Not including the 2 singles, I only liked 2 songs on the album. “So Fly” is one of the songs but I had heard and like that way before her album came out and it was just an acoustic version on you tube. I”m still a fan but I hope I like her next project more than I did her album.

Apart from being extremely in love, I can relate to the discrimination factor. I once had a teacher waste her entire fifth period class time [which was over an hour] telling her students how disrespectful I am towards my girlfriend. It had nothing to do with me not being a gentleman, but everything to do with her having a problem with black males being with non-black females.

In one case, the same teacher actually got my homie kicked outta school because she stated he threatened to kill her. But guess what? He didn’t. Even though if he wanted to kill her, I woulda helped ‘em lol. She just didn’t like us dating Middle Eastern girls. And the craziest part is, she never taught me, didn’t know my name or the first thing about me. Ain’t that a female dog? lol

Elle is so beautiful! She’s replaced Rihanna as my official girl crush lol

I just love her music and agree with the commentators above- people are so used to listening to watered down music that they wouldn’t know talent if it hit them upside the ****.

Also, it must be a bittersweet blessing for artists like Elle, Lupe, Miguel etc. They finally land major record deals, assume they’ve made it, release incredible music and then don’t get any promotion which means little to no sales! It’s so unfair! I wonder if these sort of artists (the really talented ones) need to go independent and promote their own music through Youtube and social media. Heck, I’ve even heard of artists getting business-like investment deals from VC’s or crowd funding. Maybe that’s the way to go if you’re a talented artist with a following? Sade and Prince are legends and they’ve pretty much sold out CDs, concerts etc by catering directly to their fan base.

The music business has long been about who’s popular and who THEY choose to put their money behind. Where is Chrisette Michelle, Jazmine Sullivan, India.Arie, Luke James, Laura Izibor, Faith Evans, Angie Stone, Jaguar Wright, etc? These are singers who WRITE and more than just a catchy hook, whose songs are thought and feeling-provoking and filled with creativity. Instead we are force fed mediocre singers whose songs mean nothing, sound like commercial jingles–but hey, they look good and put on a heck of a show. Record labels don’t put their money into developing CAREERS and ARTISTS. They put it behind making hits and stars. Beyonce and Rihanna are stars, not artists. But if you put that same effort and publicity behind the others, watch and see what they could become. Their should be room for both–all we want is some variety. Let them all be great.

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